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Police are questioning a Tottenham Court Road siege suspect, named locally as Michael Green, after a bomb threat in central London.

Officers were called to the scene on Friday after office equipment and computers were thrown from the fifth floor of a building on Tottenham Court Road.

A man is being questioned over a bomb threat on Tottenham Court Road (Pic: PA)

According to the Metropolitan Police the 48-year-old man deliberately targeted the company as he had a grievance with it.

He is believed to have caused disruption at HGV course company Advantage Training Services.

Although there were reports of hostages at the time, none were found when police arrested the man.

In a video posted on Youtube by the Huffington Post UK, Abby Baafi, an employee at the HGV company, said: ‘I recognised him because he was one of our previous customers.

‘He turned up, strapped up with gasoline cylinders, and threatened to blow up the office.’

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Meanwhile, Ben Dunn, who works in a building across the street, told the BBC: ‘The people who were throwing things out of the window were shouting, “We are being forced to do this”.’

Scotland yard cordoned off the area, evacuating hundreds of office workers in the surrounding buildings, with the whole of Tottenham Court Road being shut down, and Goodge Street and Warren Street Tube stations also closed.